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At various times Stephen Stills has been band leader, guitarist, workaholic, egomaniac, blues man, poetic songwriter, and laid-back, carefree family man and father of seven. The steely, blue-eyed blonde kid with the big white guitar has evolved into a gravel-voiced LA blues man who, you feel, would make the perfect voice-over candidate for the next Disney blockbuster.
So, the most complicated and hard to pin down member of the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young conglomerate finally gets his story told. Stills' career has not been without its problems, but the unconditional love, protection, and support of his fans begs the question, why no Stephen Stills autobiography?
Music writer Jeff Tamarkin once provoked a damning response when Stills revealed, "I find interviews and talking about myself the most loathsome activity in the world. So no, I'll never write one of those stupid autobiographies."
Despite his protestations, he has tried to write his own story. But you sense the staying power and slog of hunching over a typewriter on the tour bus appeals less than picking up a guitar and doing what comes effortlessly.
This is the 3rd edition of the book, first published in 2015, where fans have added their own Stills stories in celebration of his 80th birthday.
If he does ever decide to write his own version of events, perhaps this book would be a handy starting point. Over to you Stephen...
David Roberts
David Roberts is a hugely talented and versatile artist and author. David began his career in fashion illustration, and his sharp eye for form and composition is showcased beautifully in his books with Andrea Beaty, which include Ada Twist, Scientist and Iggy Peck, Architect. His work ranges from feisty retellings of fairy tales created in collaboration with his sister, Lyn (Little Red, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel), to his brilliantly funny books with Julia Donaldson such as Tyrannosaurus Drip, The Troll and The Cook and the King. In 2006 he won the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Award for his line drawings in Mouse Noses On Toast, and Little Red was shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. David’s sense of humour shines through in all his work, but especially his illustrations for The Bolds series by Julian Clary and the madcap Dirty Bertie books. Suffragette: The Battle for Equality was David’s first self-authored book and is an exquisitely illustrated history of the women’s suffrage movement, which has been a passion of David’s since his school days.
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